United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni on Monday called on the Shas party to open additional schools for Sephardic students in the city of Beit Shemesh so that “your girls” don’t need to “crowd into our ...

An interesting new report was published about non-Ashkenazi Jewish communities in the US, focusing on Persian Jews in the Los Angeles area, Syrian Jews in Brooklyn, Bukharan Jews in Queens, and ...

U. S. Jewry scarcely took notice when, last week in Manhattan, the Union of Sephardic Congregations held its second annual meeting. Ail Jewry is divided into two groups—the Ashkenazim and Sephardim.

“I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time,” said singer and Kanisse community member Galeet Dardashti. When Galeet Dardashti leads Kol Nidre services this year, she’ll be drawing on the ...

A prominent Haredi girls’ seminary in Jerusalem will reportedly operate a separate institution for Sephardi students, which will have a distinct entrance from that of their Ashkenazi peers. Beit ...

Did you know that Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews in the United States, who make up 10 percent of the American Jewish population, have higher rates of Jewish communal participation? They also have a ...

Their ancestors came from North Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Iberia. And they’re all Jewish. Sephardic Jews, at just 10% of the American Jewish population, are a minority within a ...

(The Conversation) — “Tradition!” rings out the opening line of “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Broadway play that brought Jewish life to stages around the world. The 1964 musical gives audiences a window ...

LISBON - The Portuguese parliament on Friday approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews, which include validation of the connection to Portugal by an ...

The Festival Sefarad brings Sephardic food, film, lectures and more to venues across the city in June. New York’s Festival Sefarad — which is inspired by the Festival Séfarad de Montréal, which ...